English Teacher - La Follette HS - 0.6 FTE - 26-27 SY

Annual Salary Minimum: $53,525 (26-27 TE Salary Schedule). Length of contract: 192 days. Employment type: Exempt.

About the role

MMSD is seeking highly motivated and energetic applicants who have a good attitude, willingness to learn, and passion for impactful work and learning.

The Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD) is the second-largest school district in Wisconsin. We have a simple but bold vision — to ensure that every school is a thriving school that prepares every student to graduate from high school ready for college, career, and community. We welcome applicants who will actively contribute to our ongoing commitment to making MMSD a thriving, welcoming environment for all students, families, and staff.

MMSD is committed to being anti-racist, culturally responsive, and inclusive. Our strategy centers on three major goals: that all children achieve academically, that our schools are places where children and adults thrive, and that our Black youth excel at school. We seek staff who are committed to these values and will contribute to creating a work environment that is challenging, rewarding, and supportive of employees in their career paths.

The district serves a beautifully diverse population of more than 25,000 students. More than half are students of color. Almost half come from low-income households. Nearly one third are English Language Learners, and more than 100 languages are represented in our schools.

Responsibilities

• Use standards (CCSS, SELS, Language) to identify common learning targets that represent what all students should know, do, and understand as a result of instruction.
• Use knowledge of students’ background, interest, style, culture, language, individual needs, and assessment data to inform planning.
• Develop daily and weekly plans to support student growth towards mastery of standards.
• Develop common year-long/course plans that identify essential questions and resources to support student learning.
• Establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects and communicate those objectives to students.
• Instruct students individually and in groups, using various teaching methods such as lectures, discussions, and demonstrations to build student engagement, collaboration, and independence with complex tasks.
• Adapt teaching methods and instructional materials to meet students' varying needs and interests.
• Provide daily opportunities for students to describe their reasoning, share explanations, make conjectures, justify conclusions, argue from evidence, and negotiate meaning.
• Define and plan formative assessments to show evidence of learning.
• Use multiple ways to check for student understanding and clarify, reteach, or adjust instruction based on gathered information.
• Provide students with meaningful feedback that reinforces effort, provides recognition, and promotes student involvement and progress in the learning process.
• Provide opportunities for teacher-to-student, student-to-student, and student-to-teacher feedback both orally and in writing.
• Analyze data and adjust instruction based on student achievement, observation, and teacher practice data.
• Establish rules for behavior and procedures for maintaining order among students.
• Meet with parents/guardians to discuss their student's progress and determine priorities for their children and resource needs.
• Collaborate with all staff in support of student learning, e.g., team planning and co-teaching.

Position Competencies

• High Expectations For Every Student: Demonstrate through actions and words that every student can achieve high standards. Commit to excellence and equity for all students.
• Quality Instructional Practice: Plan and execute rigorous, engaging units and lessons, including meaningful in-class and out-of-class assignments, and ensure student mastery of content. Provide necessary scaffolds, interventions, and extensions to meet a range of learning needs and support an inclusive learning environment.
• Cultural Competence: Understand and articulate systems and beliefs that may lead to inequitable outcomes for students of color. Adapt instruction to meet the needs of each student and make links between content and student experiences, perspectives, and personal goals.
• Data Proficiency: Use data beyond standardized assessments to diagnose student learning needs and differentiate instruction in the classroom.
• Team Collaboration: Collaborate with peers to reflect on student achievement and teacher practice data to continuously plan and improve instruction.
• Student & Family Engagement: Take initiative to build relationships with students. Understand unique family characteristics and find ways to engage all families as full partners in their children's education.
• Resilience & Results Orientation: Find challenges exciting and persist in the face of challenges.
• Self-Awareness & Growth Mindset: Reflect on strengths and growth areas regularly and seek mentors to improve.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree. Official transcripts are required for formal employment.
• Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) teaching license in Regular Education and/or Secondary Core Content Area. Applications are considered on a rolling basis. MMSD will consider applicants who are fully licensed before considering applicants who are not yet licensed.
• If you do not already have an active Wisconsin teaching license, you must obtain and maintain the necessary license(s) for the position. An application must be on file within 30 days of starting employment with MMSD. Failure to do so will result in your contract being voided.
• The district does not provide financial support for the continued education required to achieve certification. The district does not select or endorse any particular certification program that leads to the required Wisconsin teaching license.
• An unlicensed candidate can be considered but must be hired by a school district in order to apply for a One-Year License with Stipulations with DPI. For more information: DPI One-Year License with Stipulations. To search DPI-approved certification programs: DPI Pathways to Licensure.

Working Conditions

• Work may require travel to different locations within the district and to off-site meetings.
• Position may require working evenings, nights, and some weekends.
• Certain positions within the District may allow hybrid work flexibility for a portion of their work schedule, depending on the needs of the position and the work unit. This topic and any remote work flexibility will be discussed in more detail during the interview process.
• School-based positions are required to be in-person unless otherwise directed by the building principal.

Physical Requirements

• Ability to work under generally safe and comfortable conditions where exposure to environmental factors is minimal and poses little to no risk of injury.
• Ability to lift up to 25 pounds occasionally and may involve walking, sitting, stooping, or reaching.
• Manual dexterity necessary for completing general tasks while operating office equipment.
• May require being stationary for extended periods of time.
• Ability to perform work in a variety of indoor and outdoor environments throughout the year, including in inclement weather, spaces without air conditioning, and areas where temperatures may be uncomfortable or fluctuate rapidly.